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The story of The Leisure Society began in Burton-Upon-Trent when Nick Hemming picked up a guitar and formed a band with Shane Meadows, Paddy Considine and Rich Eaton. Following a year of demos and increasingly bizarre gigs, Shane and Paddy were drawn towards careers in film, leaving Nick to pursue a life of making music. After serving time with Burton’s best known exports The Telescopes (latterly Unisex), Nick contributed scores to some of Shane’s movies, including A Room For Romeo Brass and Dead Man’s Shoes, under a new moniker The Leisure Society.
Then in 2005 he was asked to collaborate with fellow Burtonians Christian Silva, prompting a move to South London where he bunked up in singer Christian Hardy’s postage stamp bedroom. One thing inevitably led to another and soon Nick started shyly presenting his compositions in the wee hours of the morning, picking up a ukulele, mandolin, banjo or guitar and pouring out songs that were wistful, romantic, poetic and drenched in longing. Hemming was dismissive, Hardy was transfixed. Thus The Leisure Society was reborn, a new band in which Christian tinkled the ivories, twiddled the knobs and sung all the notes Nick couldn’t reach.
Christian and Nick continued with other musical exploits: Christia...
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Top 10 The Leisure Society Songs
The Last Of The Melting Snow
The Sleeper
Save It For Someone Who Cares
Pancake Day
A Short Weekend Begins With Longing
We Were Wasted
A Matter Of Time
Love's Enormous Wings
The Darkest Place I Know
Come to Your Senses
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The Sleeper
A Matter of Time Single
The Last of the Melting Snow / A Matter of Time double A side limited edition 7″
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